Regional Accountant

Robert Half Finance and accounting are recruiting for a Regional Accountant to join a well-established business based in Leicestershire. This role involves looking after two divisions within East Midlands. This role is easily commutable from Leicester, Oakham, Market Harborough, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Kettering and Corby.

This structured Regional accountant position will allow you to work from either of the sites in East Midlands. Working closely with the stakeholders, this role entails both preparation of management accounts and business partnering with non-finance stakeholders. As you will be directly supporting the central accountant you will predominantly managing the east midlands division from a finance perspective. This role is categorised in to three different aspects, preparation of management accounts, financial reporting and ensuring individual KPIs are met for the year. You will also be managing a team of two, where you will be creating development plans and clear objectives for them to work towards.

The culture of the business is great! As it is a service led organisation, they are employee focused which allows the employees to feel embedded within the organisation. As this role entails working closely with non- finance stakeholders, they are looking for a strong, assertive and well-rounded candidate who can articulate financial performance to a range of stakeholders. Our client is searching for a candidate who is actively studying towards completing their qualifications, (ACCA, CIMA or AAT). If you are looking for a career with a structured career development plan from the offset, then this is role for you. Please see below summary of job responsibilities and requirements.

Job responsibilities

• Preparation of Regional Management Accounts
• Month end accruals, prepayments and journals
• Input of monthly accruals
• Support the assistant accountants with work flow
• Ongoing review of aged creditors, aged debtors and ensuring queries are being resolved.
• Supporting the central accountant with auditing of balance sheet control accounts.
• Preparation of financial reports for the executive team, governor packs and monthly board packs. Each report has different requirements as It would be presented to different stakeholders.
• Producing weekly register reports to ensure that the quantity and values held of invoices is to a minimum.
• Balance sheet control accounts reconciliation to ensure prepayments and accruals are still valid.
• Whilst supporting the central accountant, you will help manage and co-ordinate the annual statutory accounts exercise for the company. Alongside supporting the auditors on any queries.

Our client is looking for a candidate who is actively studying towards their accounting qualifications, (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) This role is paying between £26,000 - £33,000, 27 days annual holiday and a great pension scheme!

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.

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